Cyber-breaches have increased 300 percent since 2011, but cyber-breach disclosures fell in 2020 for the first time in five years, according to a new report from Audit Analytics.
The report, “Trends in Cybersecurity Breach Disclosures,” was released last week and analyzes public company disclosures of cyber-breaches since 2011. According to the report, the 117 breaches that were disclosed in 2020 represents a 19 percent drop from 2019 (144). Still, it is the third highest figure in a single year, behind 2019 and 2018 (130). The number had gone up each year since a dip to 50 in 2015.
